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A shooting left one dead and 22 injured at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade this week, drawing media perspectives.which said the shooting stemmed from a dispute between two juveniles. He criticized much of the media at large for coverage “invariably marked out by a fanatical obsession with gun-control and a total lack of interest in anything else.
The two suspects, who are not being named due to their ages, are being held in Juvenile Detention Center on gun-related charges and resisting arrest, according to the 16th Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri’s Jackson County Family Court Division. Additional charges are expected as the investigation continues, officials said.Imagine you’re a Kansas City Chiefs fan. You start the day enjoying the giddy celebration of a Super Bowl parade. You end up in a mass shooting.
Sadly, The Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona tweeted a grim sentiment that is all too accurate: “Two American traditions like no other — football and mass shootings.” At least one person is dead and at least 22 were shot, some critically, at the end of the Chiefs’ rally on Wednesday. Some of the injured include children. Kansas City police said three people have been detained.By one widely accepted definition, the gunfire that killed one person, wounded 22 others and ruined the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory celebration on Wednesday does not qualify as a “mass shooting.” Not enough people died.
So common is random gun violence in the United States that we must distinguish between those shootings that were merely deadly and those in which four or more people lost their lives. Let’s hope that the wounded recover, and the Kansas City killing can continue to be classified among the merely mundane, everyday horrors that are now...
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